Re: Size of hotbackup.py files versus svnadmin dump files

Michael Wood wrote:

> Why bother running "tar" on a single file (repos dump)? The point of
> tar is to package up multiple files into one file (or onto tape, but
> I'll ignore that for now.) If you already have one file, there's no
> point. Just gzip/bzip2 it.

Just habit... I use tar much more often than gzip, so I remember its
options better--gzipping is (of course) just an extra "z" in tar's
option list.

...Edmund.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Sat May 17 17:20:04 2003